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“I think they (both sides) are talking now anyway… so I don’t think they’ll upset the talks by making protests. It didn’t help them last year, so if they had any brains they’d just get on with their talks.”

Nico Hulkenberg: “The circuit in Shanghai is not particularly one of my favourite tracks, nevertheless it?óÔé¼Ôäós a demanding one, especially the first few corners and the corners before the back straight.”

“It’s still quite surreal to stand next to the like of Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso on the drivers’ parade but a lot of the drivers are pretty welcoming and I haven’t felt out of place. I’m sure in a few races it’ll feel totally normal.”

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When you put it in Boullier?óÔé¼Ôäós perspective, team orders don?óÔé¼Ôäót seem bad at all (but you have to accept that F1 is a business, not a sport). Namely, even at the beginning of the year, if one of your drivers can let the other one past as easily as possible when one is clearly faster than the second, overall team performance dictates that the team orders the driver ahead to do so. Pure logic really.

This line of thought has a caveat: it should work for both drivers, be situation based (who is faster during said portion of the race) and potentially reciprocal even during a single race if speed of drivers alternate during the race.

Descartes is not dead. Boullier pursues a proud French tradition of rationalising irrational subjects (but obviously I disagree completely: drivers should race all along, whoever is behind/in front).@Tango

Bahrain is a total waste of time, circuits crap, the atmosphere is nil, there are next to no spectators, the scenery looks bland and somewhat creepy and although the Pirelli tyres will save the race, it looks like being yet another Red Bull borefest.